Racist Quotes - Page 22

• It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Racism, Supremacy, Sexism

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• It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart.

  Trey Parker

  Heart, Thinking, Years

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• What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

  Rand Paul

  Courage, Kings, Thinking

  "Rand Paul Says He Has A Tea Party 'Mandate'". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 19, 2010.

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• I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "2008 Black Homophobia". slog.thestranger.com. November 5, 2008.

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• Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

  Judith Light

  Evil Within, Prejudice, Our Society

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• The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

  Christopher Lasch

  Attitude, School, Abortion

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• If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

  Boris Becker

  Girl, Sports, White

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• Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

  Eliot Engel

  Our World, America, United States

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• And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

  Newt Gingrich

  Native American, Thinking, Color

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

  Emma Goldman

  Thinking, Effort, Relentless

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.54, PM Press

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• I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

  Dick Gregory

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

  Jasmine Guy

  White, Racism, People

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• Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Race, Islam, Characteristics

  "Islam is not a monolith" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2013.

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• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

  Isaac Hayes

  Religious, World, Belief

  "Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'", www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2006.

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• All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.

  Jay Griffiths

  Holiday, White, People

  "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

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• My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Suffering, Ends

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• I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

  Shia LaBeouf

  School, Kids, White

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• I have never been racist.

  Kevin Pietersen

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, People, Stupidity

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• Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

  John Green

  Black, Shirts, Starlings

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.256, A&C Black

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• And you're not the kind of girl I want." Surely he couldn't mean the fact that I was Mexican. From what I knew of Hardy, there wasn't a bit of prejudice in him. He never used racist words, never looked down on someone for things they couldn't help. "What kind do you want?" I asked with difficulty. "Someone I can leave without looking back.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Girl, Mean, Mexican

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.402, St. Martin's Press

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• It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it's hard work, but it's the price you pay for owning everything.

  Scott Woods

  Hard Work, Class, Racism

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• If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'

  Scott Baio

  Brother, Thinking, Diagnosis

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Blessed, America, Unity

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• If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Race, Doe

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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